Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-02-08

THE OREGON RAILWAY AND NAvI-
CATION CO.
It's Great Future-The Great Railway In
the Northwestern Empire.
Eli Perkins, the great American
liar, In o recent letter 10 the Chicago
Tribune, by great exertion OF mental
power kept within the bounds of
truth when he wrote the following for
publication: ........
"The most enhancing trip on this
earth, said the artist Bierstadt, ''and
l have painted the Yosemite, Niagara
Falls aud the crested dome OF the
Alps-I say the most charming trip to
me 10 y trip up the Columbia rlver on
the cars or boats Of the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company over the
Cascade Mountains.
Over the mountsips-over the great
Rockies 10 q steam boat" / exclaimed.
Certainly. you actually sail right
through the great caDons Of the Cas-
cade Range and come out on the east
side OF the Rocky mountains. All
day long you can sit on the deck OF
the boat or look out of the car windows
and see Mount Rainier and Mount
Hood and Mount Adams, capped With
eternal snow aid looming up 1900
feet above the sea. They look only Q
few miles away. IL seems a. IL You
could walk TO them in few hours, tut
they are eighty miles away. For
hours you can ride by them and never
pass them. Ther, they stand like the
north star"
"Is the Columbia . great river" I
asked.
"Yes. great and grand. Like the
Amazon, IL drains the whole north
end Of the continent. The waters of
the Columbia start from Pixies Peak.
near Denver, and from Montana.
The Missouri drains the eastern por-
ton Of the continent, the Colorado
and Rio Grande the southern, and the
Columbia drains the northern. It
flows swifter than any river In the
world II fairly boils through the
deep canons of the Columbia. 1t Is Q
perpetual Yosemite for miles and
miles. No traveller should talk Of
Mount Blanc or the Rega who has moi
rode through the Cascade range"
How does the scenery look?"
First, ~ you approach the noun
taips from Portland, you see thoss
sabIime covered peaks standing like
silent sentinels. On you ride or sail
up-and up-and up-and then you
enter the canyon Of th Columbia. Al
ynur feet are sweet berries and flowers
then mammoth trees fresco the rocks
then comes the great bare rocks lift
ing their heads heavenward and then
the cap Of everlasting snow where th,
billiards blast and the hurricane wres
tie with the snow.
Mr.. Bierstadt was right. The triE
over the Northern. Pacific, the Vel
lowstone and down the Columbia is
the greatest trip Of life time.
The Oregon Railway and Naviga.
ton Co.. is really the other end OF the
Northern Pacific. II takes the North
ern Pacific passengers at the noun
tains and carries them down to Port.
land and the Pacific Ocean. Its beau
tiful boats sail from Portland through
the mouth of the Columbia and down
along the coast to San Francisco.
From the docks of these beautiful
boats you can see the revolving ssl
mon wheels on the Columbia anC
count the spouting white whales alonl
the coast.
The road lie q great pronerty. 1t !
to the Northern Pacific what tb
Southern Pacific is to the Union Pa
cific. It commands the north side o
the continent. 1t is thousand time
the most charming route TO Californi
In the summer time. Elijah Smith
one of our sarewdest New Workers,
its president, while c. H. Prescott,
msn of superb judgment and vast ex
perience, is the actual manager Il
Portland. ihe stock Of the 0regol
Railway and Navigation Co. 10 i'm
pregnable to rivalry. They may du
plicate.. Its beautiful steamboats, on th
Columbia, but they can never parable
It's tracks. Two railroads csn.never b
built through the canyons OF th
| Columbia.
The New York Post can make mil
takes about the status Of this gres
: road and It's wonderful franchises AM
! brokers can bear its stock, but II
Z value will 20 up and up.
In Oregon 10 10 be seen the best frui
in the world, the tsllest grain and th
most prolific hops. The Oregon hop
have caused the English farmers u
Kent to wonder. and 90 amazed th
hop men Of central New York ths
they are rushing there to get out hol
yards. In Oregon and Washington
Territory are gigantic pine tree
enough 10 replenish the worlds lum
ber yards for ages and salmon enougl
to feed her people. II the Northerl
Pacific and the Oregon Railway an.
Navigation are great now what WI
tbev be when their own land and tn
l3, 600, 900 acres Of land now owned b
the Northern Pacific shall be settled
RAILROAD HORROR.
Down 20 Death on the Vermont Central.
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